Original German / French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Converted to Carbine - Dated 1873 Snider Rifle The FN Model 1903 is

The FN Model 1903 is based on the same mechanical design as the Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless

so they may have bends in the blade

Army Technical Manual TM 9-1005-213-25

due in part to lack of initiative by the American corps commander

these are styled after the US GI WW2 Army Helmet

Original German / French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Converted to Carbine - Dated 1873 Snider Rifle The FN Model 1903 isOriginal Item: Only One Available. Despite the fact that the French needle fire Chassepot rifle was far superior to the needle fire Prussian Dreyse rifle, the French took a swift and decisive beating in the Franco Prussian war of 1870 71. After the defeat the Prussians removed great quantities of the new French Needle fire rifles, which were a big improvement over the Dreyse Needle fire rifle, the Prussian equivalent that had been used during the war.